Example sentences of "[noun sg] show [conj] it [is] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Pointing out difficulties is a very common behaviour but is one of the riskier ones because research shows that it is far from certain how people will take it . |
| 2 | However , a close examination of this work shows that it is not strictly ab initio , in that extrapolations are made from calculations performed on other molecules . |
| 3 | Whitehead Mann 's prominence shows that it is not necessary to wholly own a large number of overseas offices to gain and handle top assignments successfully ; its membership of the Ward Howell Group covers its international search needs without incurring the capital expenditure and risk that the Big Four have undertaken . |
| 4 | It is selectively impaired by lesions involving subcortical visual relays but detailed analysis of the deficit shows that it is probably due to a mild impairment in detecting contrast similar to that obtained with small cortical lesions ( Legg 1988 ; Legg and Cowey 1977 ; Legg and Turkish 1983 ) . |
| 5 | Experience shows that it is often difficult to assess the extent of exposure to light that samples receive in the market and hence to estimate the degree of exaggeration or acceleration that any one test gives . |
| 6 | The Labour party 's amendment shows that it is still wedded to clause 4 and to renationalisation , despite the fact that the leader of the Labour party said recently : ’ We must learn to run capitalism better than the Conservatives . ’ |
| 7 | The example of the a-ray microscope shows that it is far from clear how these two worlds could be juxtaposed without subverting and contradicting the very quantum theory they were invented to explain . |
| 8 | The example of a tape recorder shows that it is not : the same machine can translate information in the form of sound waves in the air into patterns of magnetization on a tape , and vice versa . |
| 9 | Everything that Labour says about public spending shows that it is completely indifferent to inflation , which would have a bad effect on unemployment . |
| 10 | He also states that his analysis showed that it is not easy to increase market share through time . |
| 11 | The Medical Research Council 's Common Cold Research Unit showed that it is not the person who gets caught in the rain or sits in a draught who is likely to develop a cold but the one who has to work in the air-conditioned , centrally-heated , artificially-lit atmosphere found in many modern office blocks . |
| 12 | I have taken a little time to sketch the history of paragraph 16.5 of Code C in order to show that it is not directly linked to the ancient and deep-rooted privilege against self-incrimination . |